With the companies still facing losses and finding hard to step into profitability, execs are saving faces and willing to put their experience behind smaller firms. The case is no different with gaming companies as Sony execs continue their sail towards smaller gaming studios. Sony Online Entertainment waved goodbye to three execs , Corey Dangel, Matt Wilson and John Smith, the key players behind its hugely popular game Free Realms The Agency development team. They were currently working on SOE’s upcoming game, The Agency which will most probably be delayed. The three will be joining the gaming startup Detonator Games.
Archive for July, 2009
Apperian has raised a healthy first round by bagging $1 Million. The funding came from CommonAngels who believe that their money is being invested in the right manner. Apperian makes apps for its enterprise customers and had been founded by people associated to Apple. Its CEO Chuck Goldman has had a vast 8 years experience with Apple and has a better knowledge of what clients in the business field would want of these apps.
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If you are an art lover and tired of your desktop, projector screensaver than Digitalbloom has something for a change, an impressive change to be exact. The website is a marketplace for artists to promote and monetize their work and for art lovers to browse and find the best piece that matches their taste. Users can easily make purchases of both images and videos and display it on any hardware. The site claims to feature artwork that has been approved to be displayed by the art jury which will help ensure that users get the best in quality. If you are interested, you can buy images starting from EUR 2.50 and visuals at EUR 7.90.
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If you are in China and you think it’s hard for you to get iPhone, go grab tPhone. The phone is one of the many attempts by China to copy the leading models from numerous manufacturers which previously included Nokia before the iPhone craze got the better. What exactly do you need to do all this? A few engineers who are good at copying stuff and a little of playing around with the logo and name and there you have it. I have often wondered why China doesn’t try investing all that cash and energy in trying to create something of its own, so that they may at least escape the copy label everyone sticks at them.
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There is quite a stir in the air as larger companies acquire others. The latest report on acquisition speaks of Sprint Nextel getting its hands on Virgin Mobile USA for $483 Million. Sprint appears quite interested in the idea of prepaid cellular service, which is why it has stepped up this deal. The deal would end up integrating Virgin Mobile with Sprint Boost service while keeping its brand name as it is and CEO, Dan Schulman will take charge as head of Sprint’s prepaid business.
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We have talked about how to convert HTML pages to PDF and while there are quite a lot of tools to convert PDF to Word files; Adreamsoft has released a new tool to do that. Simply download the tool and you can convert those files easily to a Word document. I tried the converter and to be honest it gives the best result, with the originality of the text and images kept intact. The tool itself is pretty customizable as it gives you the option to convert selected pages from the entire file, something that will prove more than useful if you are looking forward to include a reference from the PDF file in your document, etc. The converter can be bought for $29.95 and there are other useful tools available as well to help you with anything that is associated to PDF files (remove password, edit, etc).
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SPSS, analytics software ad solutions provider, SPSS has been acquired by IBM. The cash value of the acquisition is close to the $1.2 Billion. The acquisition awaits shareholder approval of SPSS and the deal might most probably be closed in the later half of this year. SPSS analyses data from people to predict how they will behave in the future. It will be integrated into IBM’s Software Group and Information Management division.
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Mixamo grabbed $4 Million in its first round of funding for its game animation technology. The round was led Granite Ventures and Keynote Ventures. The startup rests on Stefano Corazza and Nazim Kareemi, both of whom are experienced with motion capture and 3D technology. Mixamo will enable developers to customize games by dragging and dropping features in their games. The startup will have Kareemi as its CEO and Stefano Corazza will head at its CTO.
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While Google is trying allure to use more of its Book Search by offering free Sony e-book readers, its Reader team waved goodbye Ben Darnell. He had been a key member of Google Reader team and will now be a part of FriendFeed. This is the first key hiring by FriendFeed in over a year and Ben will lend his expertise at data storage and scalibility.
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